Palaeoenvironments and Taphonomy of Bird Fossils(Early Cretaceous) from Jehol Biota in Western Liaoning,China

Jehol Biota in western Liaoning and northern Hebei has been a hot topic of global concern,a large number of exquisite fossils were found in Yixian group Sihetun,such as Sinosauropteryx,Protarchaeopteryx, Caudipteryx and Confuciusornis.Scientists consider the discovering of Sinosauropteryx discovered so far as the earliest ancestor of birds.According to the dates of root layer,we can see warm and humid,lakes